Improvement in making soap



PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL E. STILWELL, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING SOAP.

$pecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 278. dated July 17, 1837.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it ,known that I, DANL. E. STILWELL, of the city of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Makinglooa-p; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description of making the above-mentioned soap.

To four quarts of soft water put eight ounces of common bar or hard soap. Let it he placed over a slow fire anil stirred occasionally until the soap is all dissolved. Then add fouronnces of sub-carbonate of soda, bring it to a boil, and when cool it is fit for use. I sometimes take ten ounces of soap and three ounces of subcarbonate or make other variations in the proportions of the ingredients.

The com hining together of a solution of hard soap and the sub-carbonate of soda in not or boiling water, so as to term a soap of a peculiar quality, in the manner herein shown.

DANIEL E. STILWELL.

Witnesses:

J 0s. RADGLIFF, O. H. MILEBERGER. 

